ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT
Answers
Archaeognatha - CORRECT ANSWER - looks like silverfish but with long antennae, large
compound eyes, a humped thorax, wingless, styli and chewing mouthparts
"bristletails"
Thysanura - CORRECT ANSWER - silvery scales, flattened, lateral eyes, chewing
mouthparts, styli, long antennae, and 3 caudal filaments
"silverfish"
Ephemeroptera - CORRECT ANSWER - membraneous wings, soft bodied, triangular
front wings held above the body at rest, reduced mouthparts, imago is adult with a subimago
stage
"mayflies"
Odonata - CORRECT ANSWER - Large eyes that take up most of head, two pairs of
membraneous wings, bristle like antennae, chewing mouthparts
Zygoptera and Anisoptera
"Damselflies and Dragon Flies"
Plecoptera - CORRECT ANSWER - flat membraneous wings folded back, two tail
filaments, square pronotum, chewing mouthparts
"stoneflies"
Embioptera - CORRECT ANSWER - resemble stone flies but have swollen basal segment
of the foretarsi, males are winged or wingless and females wingless, chewing mouthparts
, Blattodea - CORRECT ANSWER - dorsoventrally flattened with tegmina that don't have
scutellum, cursorial legs, large shield like pronotum, long filamentous antennae
"cockroaches"
Isoptera - CORRECT ANSWER - equal length wings, chewing mouthparts, small,
polymorphic
"termites"
Mantodea - CORRECT ANSWER - raptorial front legs, tegmina, chewing mouthparts,
"mantis"
Dermaptera - CORRECT ANSWER - pinching cerci, may have short tegmina at midline,
chewing mouthparts
Orthoptera - CORRECT ANSWER - jumping hind legs, tegmina, chewwing mouthparts
grasshoppers, crickets, katydids"
Phasmatodea - CORRECT ANSWER - sticklike, all texas species wingless, chewing
mouthparts
"stickbugs"
Zoraptera - CORRECT ANSWER - winged or wingless, resemble termites, 9-segmented
antennae, 2 segmented tarsi, chewing mouthparts
"angel insects"
Psocoptera - CORRECT ANSWER - swollen clypeus, winged or wingless, soft bodied,
small
"bark or book lice"